Artist:Barry Southgate

B A R R Y S O U T H G A T E Bring Change Somewhere. It’s an imperative known as the BCS Movement, a motto and a way of life. But before being embraced as such by thousands of supporters, it was a personal mission (and the initials) of its creator -- singer/songwriter Barry Southgate. It’s a concept that he pursues relentlessly through his music. And with the upcoming release of his debut solo project, Epitome, Southgate is eager to see it in action. For Southgate, music has been an obvious life course since childhood. Having grown up around music (his father and two younger brothers all play guitar and sing, while his mother recorded a gospel album with her church choir years ago), he has always been driven by a passion for touching lives through the stories that are already alive in the melodies he hears. But his journey has been anything but ordinary and predictable. A South African native, Barry Southgate moved with his family to New Zealand in his teen years before venturing on ...